AMN Healthcare, Kaiser Win Appeal to Arbitrate Nurses’ Wage Case

A group of health-care providers can require a proposed class of traveling nurses to arbitrate their wage and hour claims after the Ninth Circuit ruled Tuesday that their contracts’ arbitration provisions weren’t substantively unconscionable.

The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit’s unsigned, unpublished decision reverses a lower court’s January ruling that AMN Healthcare Services Inc., Kaiser Foundation Health Plan Inc., and Kaiser Foundation Hospitals placed the nurses under “significant time pressure” to sign the professional services agreement.

Judge Jon S. Tigar of the US District Court for the Northern District of California denied the providers’ motion to compel ...